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It‘s easy to buy train tickets at the station when you get to Vietnam. Apart from peak holiday periods such as Tet, it‘s not difficult to book a soft sleeper a few days in advance, but be prepared to be flexible over your exact choice of class, train number or departure date. If you are booking for the same day or the following day, you might find the best quality trains full, but other trains will probably have berths available.
Reservations were computerised in 2002, and you can buy tickets for most train journeys within Vietnam at Saigon and Hanoi station booking offices.
So for example, you can buy both a Saigon-Hue ticket and a Hue-Hanoi ticket at Saigon station ticket office. However, at other stations such as Hue, Danang or Nha Trang, you can only book journeys starting at the station you‘re at. At ticket offices, you pay in Vietnamese Dong, US dollars are not generally accepted. If you‘re sure of your itinerary and it‘s important to be on a specific train on a specific date in a specific class, then you can pre-book by email with a local Vietnamese travel agency, see below.
Quoted from www.seat61.com
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